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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, February 15, 1968
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devnted to the promotion of the general wtdfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the cltizeas of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
•Miss Elizabeth Stewarl Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell Sports Editor
Mi.ss Linda Hardin Clerk
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. •'Allen Myers Paul Jackson
Douglas Houser Rocky Martin Steve Martin Roger Brown
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Happy i.r the man that findeth tvindom, and the man that getteth understanding. Proverbs 3:13.
Bombing Issue
Many in high and low places decry
the bombing of North Viet Nam miliiary
installations and suppiy lines, among
them Father Groppi, Senator Robert F.
Kennedy, and General James Gavin
(USA-Ret.)
General Gavin, certainly, should
know better, though he, of course, is a
foot soldier, rather than a modern Billy
Mitchell.
The Viet Nam war is a shooting war
of major proportions and the fact that
it is undeclared is a technical matter,
perhaps of interest to non-combatants
safe before their television tubes, but not
to the lads in the field.
In contrast, there is the young doc
tor, now working in an army front-line
field hospital, the same young doctor
who, just six weeks ago was aiding in the
heart transplant operation at Stanford
University hospital. He has no sympathy
with the bleeding hearls at home. War
is war and he sees it. His hospital has
handled up to 67 battle wounded in an
eight-hour stretcli.
What about history?
Immediate history shows that the
stop-the-bombing pleas on international
level come first from the North Vietna
mese enemy, who have already proved
on every occasion of surcease that the
time is used to re-group, re-man, re-sup
ply and re-build. To be cuckolded one
time is misguided trust or judgment. Sec
ond time around must be charged to fool
ishness.
Other nations’ complaints come from
1) friends of the Vietnamese and 2) na
tions afraid of the war’s escalation.
The history of World War II dis
proves the theory of the ardent airmen
that air power alone can win a war.
But World War II proves that the
devastation wrought by superior air oow-
er was an integral part in the Allied vic
tory. Item: Germany had more piaiies at
war’s end than at any time during the
war, but the bombers had left Germany
without the petrol to keep her planes
airborne. Item: naval air power early
knocked out enough Japanese ships to
provide time for this nation’s productive
power to provide materiel to defeat the
enemy.
There’s another important factor
and that is morale.
A World War II veteran of much ac
tion quickly replied “No!” to the ques
tion of whether he ever became accus
tomed to bombing raids.
It is the same, and moreso, with the
civil population which has not the les
sons of discipline learned in military
service.
On Today's Youth
Dr. Everett Witherspoon, director of
' the scholarship, student aid, and other
related funds at Duke University, com
mented on the federal student work-aid
program where 85 cents on each dollar
of student pay is federally furnished. The
one joker in the deck of the federal aid
program is that the student must show
need to qualify.
“I am glad to have the opportunity
to be a part of a scholarship grant, made
on basis, not of need, but of attainment.”
Dr. Joyce Sheely, dean of the psy
chology department of Queens college,
commented she had been present before,
had enjoyed a brilliant morning of inter
views and was very glad to be acquainted
again with a new crop of outstanding
youths.
Dr. Fred Frank, dean of student per
sonnel at Washington & Jefferson Uni
versity talked about a very present sub
ject “Collegiate Activism”.
He asked without answering, “Is it
(activism) representative of the majori
ty of todays college students, or is it
merely a very vocal minority?”
He advised, “To be a good activist,
one must be informed. He must read, he
must listen, he must discuss.” He further
advised freshman and sophomores to
read, listen and discuss first.
It was the eighth annual Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company scholarship lunch
eon. Operations Chief Jack Schweppe
had noted that this nation is soon to find
half of its growing population age 25 and
under and quoted from an eminent phi
losopher, “American youth will not mere
ly endure; it will prevail.”
A look at seven fine high school
seniors, candidates for the scholarship,
made it easy to agree with the pronounce
ments of the professorial judges and Jack
Schweppe.
The seven were Danny Dyke, of
Kings Mountain high school, and Ann
LeGrande, Johnn.v Pope, George Clay,
Jr., Edwin Speagle, Mike Bridges and
Richard Chamberlain, of Shelby high
school.
'Round the Corner
The candidates and their managers
are moving out, with brisk steps, hearty
smiles, and strong handshakes.
But it’s a bit early for one-vote voter
who still is fighting the flu cough, the
latest fuel bill, and other winter prob
lems.
But spring is near and these prob
lems will vanish.
Shortly, the one-vote voter will be
taking sides and joining the battling.
It’s a singularly American system
and a singularly American show and It
has brought good goveifnment.
Harassment, Again
As has been mentioned here before,
when a survey team of the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction recommended
replacement of several plants of the
Kings Mountain district school system
(Central, East, West, etc.) George H.
Mauney, of the board of education, in
quired, “This sounds mighty good. You
going to supply the money?” Oh, the sur
veyors replied, we have no money.
The board of education and their
school administrators certainly were sur
prised, if not shocked, over the weekend
when a letter was received rescinding, in
effect, another of December 27, and de
claring Kings Mountain was proceeding
far too slowly on its path of complying
with the 1964 civil rights act requiring
elimination of school desegregation on
basis of race, creed, color, national origin
and sex. (That last one hasn’t been im
plemented to any great extent in other
areas such as hospitals.)
The education wing of the Depart
ment of Health, Education and Welfare
concentrates on the color and national
origin requirements in the use of the
economic bludgeon of federal aid funds
withdrawal to force implementation of
the act.
As far as Kings Mountain district
schools is concerned, the recent letter
has all the earmarks of wanton harrass-
ment. $
Total desegregation has been accom-'
plished as fast as plant facilities permit
ted in Grades 7 through 12. Faculties are
desegregated. Negro youths play and
star on athletic teams and in other intra
school and inter-school competitions.
In the face of this sort of business,
about the only praise local area folk—
regardless of race, creed, color, national
origin or sex—can find for the zealots of
the federal department of education is
that they’re moving, finally, against the
foot-dragging Yankees.
The complaint here involves desegre
gation at Compact and Davidson plants
with inference that Davidson should be
thrown to the ash heap. As Mr. Mauney
suggested to the state survey team, it is
suggested that the HEW folk haven’t of
fered any cash for classrooms.
Congratulations to Ricky Falls and
Rocky Ford, Jr., the city’s two newest
Eagle Scouts.
By MARTIN HARMON
"At case ...”
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As any serviceman, past or
present knows, this drill ser
geant’s command, after “ 'Tensh-
un!”, “Right DRESS!”, etc., etc..
Is the most pleasant he can hear
—except of course "Dismissed.”
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Former President Dw'ight D.
Eisenhower’s latest book. Double-
day, copyright t967, is entitled
“At Ease, Stories I Tell My
Friends", will meet the “at ease”
test of the Willies and Joes who
read the book.
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I had the pleasure of reading
the book, via Mrs. John C. McGill
who entered the anecdotal, auto
biographical work in the Home
Arts Club, of which my wife is
a member.
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While most folk who win fame
in war, business or politics and
other non-litierary fields custom
arily use ghost writers (not neces
sarily good) or friendly editors
(not necessarily good) to write
their stories, Ike apparently
write" Viis own. It reads like Ikei
talks and it reads well.
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The reason is apparent in thei
reports of Ike’s continued frustra-1
tion. until the North African cam-j
paign of World War II. in get-1
ting staff rather than field as
signments. In his staff work for
General Pershing shortly after
World War I. with General Mac-
Arthur in Washington and the
• Phillipines. with General Marshall
' at the outset of World War II
I and with other commanders in
! between. Ike did much writing—
j operations orders and other mili
tary "literature” that of necessity
had to have what a good reporter
must have, accuracy, clarity and
conciseness.
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The ex-President takes the
reader through his boyhood years
in Kansas, to West Point where
he was a substitute back on the
Army football team, through his
army career, through his presi
dency of Columbia University
and his assignment to NATO.
"CAN I SET YOUR AUTOGRAPH, MISTER?”
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-A
BIRCH
BRANCH LINE
1
'timothy
TARHKEL
Viewpoints of Other Editors
BLOCK THAT MISPRINT
Perhaps it’s our journalistic
training, but we always get a
long chuckle out of misprints. In
other newspapers, that is. So we
smiled happily upon reading to-
LIFE AND HARD TIMES
OF NATIONAL BIRDS
What does a country do when
its national bird becomes extinct?
Get another one, we suppose, al
though we cannot remember off-
day that a strlkr in a General "“‘j?"
irinH •yr\r\ Mot.'ov't'Holocc if lo a
Motors’ plant had “iddicd” 120,-
000 men. That struck us as a fine
word, kind of a cross between
“idle” and "addle.”
Some misprints are merely
funny, others are outrageous,
and still others are the kind
which a newspaper had better
correct just as fast as it can. One
of the latter is still a great fa-
kind of zoo. Nevertheless, it is a
real question in far-off New
Caledonia, West Pacific island
probably spared a lot of the
world’s more sophisticated prob
lems. Friends of the cagou are
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
event* taken from the 1931
files of the Kings Mountain
Htrald.
The weather, that topic which
can be discussed but not changed
seeking stern government meas-j thereby, was the big news in
urcs to save one of the globe’s! Kings Mountain, as citizens var-
80 THIS IS
NEWYOBK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
Abraham Lincoln said in his
Gettysburg Address, "The world
will very little note nor long re
member what we say here; but
it will never forget what they did
here." These memorable words
are remindful of how the world
remembers Lincoln’s biographer,
Carl Sandburg. For now at 7d0
5th Avenue and through Feb
ruary 29th, the works and iv-
miners of Sandburg are splend
idly on view, and doubtless a
long time will pass before they
are forgotten. Here at the Hall
mark Gallrey, a Carl Sandburg
Exhibition has opened which is
attracting people of all walks uf
life who warmly remember this
renowned poet and biographer,
author and folksinger who de
parted from the world he loverl
so well last July at the age of
89.
Along with others especiall]^
interested, I was present becaust^
I have been asked to write a bio
graphy of my late friend, Carl
Sandburg. He was the embruli-
ment of so many important and
fascinating things that any good
account of him is a formidable
undertaking. But long ago l
learned that nothing worthwhile
is easy, so I have agreed to this
undertaking. And I was encourag
ed by a recent conversation on
the subject with my friend, Irving
Stone, the eminent author, who
also knew Carl. Should anyone
doubt the stellar role of the lat
ter, let him come to the Hallmark
Exhibition. There I found not
only the memorabilia warmly
representing his life, but also his
winsome widow and his sprightly
daughter, Margaret Sandburg,
with whom I had already spent
pleasant days at their lordly
home near Flat Rock. North Car
olina. Like their husband and
father, they seemed as much at
home in Now Y’ork as in the
Great Smoky Mountains.
vorite with newspapermen. Manyl thousands, only 2W ar*? now left
years ago a London newspaper! The cagou, a kind of crane, is
wished to p-ay tribute to one of ®hout the size of a chicken
Titled “Carl Sandburg: a Trib
ute”, the exhibition includes many-
rarest and most exotic birds, It’s!t°t*siy enjoyed a six-inch snow,! ^
the old story—once numbered the record low cold tern- \vhi»>h ^■**'*’
-ic peatures and laughed or cried! striking m
through any number of inconven-[
iences. I f^t^tipts ajid books loaned by
with
Britain’s fiery old. seadog ad
mirals. It ran his biography, and,
wishing to end its eulogy with a
bang, referred to him as “a bat-
ftn ^ctile crest and feathering
that shades from pale yellow to
violet. Like the kiwi, the national
SOCIAL AND
Mrs. Paul
the program.
McGinmf^Mcntedl Publisher for over 40 yeaii^
W PftnU aaaitU
I Harcourt, Brace and World, Sand-
1 VIOiei. L.lKe me KIWI, lllf nailUIiai X-fieiUliai Ponl.
Most p^rsonTTf middle and ^e^sekr^^^^^eran/'TheTe wa7ki An foTthe
advanced age look over the^ Son faVSdoiJiJlhe'Jtp^'l S'^off^threSu'^^^^^^ A ValenUne dance was held atj^'fS^EW YORK TIMES* who
Ld s^t •o*’ne'’;rtwo iXa ^"“.^adt"s ThT m“ ar^’^e; S Sy n^hTfr s“^! ® whopping
who made a material imprint on a "battle-scar^ veteran,” it' stroying its habitat. olub members. Hosts were «>• i alf page feature story about the
them m shaping their future. Ike s had meant to term him "a bottle-1 So, New Caledonia is a long and Mrs.
early career moulder was General
Fo.x Connor, with whom Ike
served in Panama, and who con
tinued to look over Ike’s shoul
der. with an occasional prod for ^^jn beit to keep misprints i breasts over the b^d eagle. Am-| "ow.
patience or piece or advice orlo^ “typos” from the Monitor, wei erica’s national bird. It is feared of highland springs
Mr.i
of a "battle-scared veteran,” it' stroying its habitat.
had meant to term him "a bottle-! So, New Caledonia is a „
scarred veteran.” The Battle of way off, out of sight and out ofif"*”- and Mrs. Bruce Thorburn
’Trafalgar was as nothing to the mind. But here in the United
conflict which ensued. ! States there have been, tremors MTrppTi bd/n/\wc.
anxiety in conservationist "*^***■1-' onvJOKS
' The brooks run quieitly now.
While we promise to continue | of
helping hand for his pupil. Ani
mal lovers will appreciate Ike’s
training and devotion to "Black-
le” an untrained horse, already
a ripe 14 years old, whom Ike
chose for his in Panama. Ike’s
horse learned to obey his every
command, won a ribbon for him
in a horse show. Ike returned
the favor, rescuing “Blackie” from
suffocation in a Panama jungle
quagmire.
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’The joke had been told time:
and time again, about the guy
who, fresh to the Pentagon, got
lost in that architectural jungle
and virtually starved to death
before rescue. He wasn’t lost that
long, but Ike himself got lost in
the Pentagon.
Bruce MeDaniel and:®'®"*' here also are
rs RniPo Sandburg’s workshop, his guitar
Which accompanied his resonant
voice in moving folk songs, his
famous eyeshade, clippings etc.
Manuscript pages from his mon
umental biography of Abraham
Lincoln as well as galley proofs
cannot promise not to chuckle at; that insecticides are killing them;f°“7. /lownhill oJ’hr"’
them Chrixtinm Ftt'ienj’o Monitor, off or rendering them sterile.: . WO dlands, pastures and , P . ^ original letters
them.—Christian Science Monitor, oft or rendering them sterile.
WIELDY WORDS
, fmagme thrrasrno; onW of h^v: I
I ing to pick another emblem,_ but « waters in many
from such figures as Amy Low
ell, Sherwood Anderson and
deletine an extinct *^eaelV"fromI P*®®®®’ "^here the water spreads! Ffankl'n D. Roosevelt are on dis-
i the tons of flaecoles the back of °''®'' granite ledges, ice-lace pat- PlaX- The whole exhibit portrays
Maverick, who cam-1 lin * fhe (»rri1res of'post of fires ' ®’'® trocheted against thel'his life vividly inminiature from
1 - and other Jdareywhere n now ®'’°'^ • • • i'^ginning to end. interspersing
language which he termed gob-1 ®The water sings a muted song, fact with poetrj- and fancy. Carl
-
Maury
p-algned
will just put their minds to it,
they can come up with nice, easy,
comfortable, everyday words
which we all can use and under
stand.
Consider, for a moment, the
great advance in ease in lan
guage just achieved by the spe
cialists dealing with ears, noses
and throats. They felt, and who
would gainsay them, that they
were saddled with an "unwieldy’,’
title within the American Medical
Association. It was the section on
“laryngology, otology and rhino-
logy.” Now, after their successful
effort at simplification, they will
be known as the section on “otor-
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'There were some close calls on
■lis life. Captains Eisenhower and
George Patton were tank fanciers
’n the post World War I era,
’ound that the American Mark
7III had enough power to help
'long, via steel cable tow, the
'ow voltage Renaults. Watching
•■n operation at Camp Meade,, ., . ,
•here was a sudden whizz by the Pompous jargon is eon-
Tke and Patton faces. A cable
45 whooping cranes, and now painting
there are but 44. It remains, ^-^e soft music ona hears is
touch-and-go with America s mos j year’s Symphony. It is -a
famous neariv-extinet bird. But haunting melody, a murmur of
condors, another of thiyountrys from beneath the
rare.st species, and the largest covering. If one listens
tin feet from wing-tip to wing- piosely. he thinks he can hear
tin) are ■^[■arfme n eomebaek. affirmation of the rightness
Last year the California Depart- qj Nature.—/forf/ord Courant
ment of Fish and Garnp counted
.38 individuals. This vpor there'a fellow nowadays. He couldn’t
are 51. an increase of 13. which treat liis girl and himself to an
is r-ettv coed. Non', how -wnii'd ice cream soda for that (or do
a condor look, clutching a bunch boys still treat girls to ire cream
of arrows? And thev are bald, of sodas?)
Here are a few lines of his poem.s
set forth at the exhibit:
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering
people will live on.
The foi» comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
hinolaryngology.” See how eaesy On’'’ ’■eal t-ald. ci-ip.
it is for anyone to think up a Well, wings are popular
word which all can use withouti pc w'ptI hnvp ^
any trouble! fashionable national bird, ps well
Nor should one think that such; fierce.—The Hartford Courant
There is a place where love be"
gins and a place where love ends
'There is a touch of two hand;
-Durham Morning Herald that foils all dictionaries.
had broken and missed the two
'uture generals by about five
'nches. 'They never agreed on who
turned whitest.
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In Algeria, intelligence report
ed a likely Rommel counter-at
tack at a fairly well-defended
pass. Ike wasn’t agreeable, sus-
ecting the German would at-
fined" to any one branch of ac
tivity. In fact, the medical pro
fession (sinning as it may be in
this respect) is seldom singled
out as the worst offender. TTiat
distinction is often reserved for
the sociologists, whose language
is felt to have lost all contact
with either reality or comprehen
slon.
COSTLY RATS
The Housing and Urban Devel
opment Department’s rat expert,,
L^nard Czarniecki, estimates
that it will cost $6 per rodent to
eradicate rats from the cities.
The House Banking and Curren
cy Committee has approved a
three-year federal rat eradication!
i proigram, with a proposed outlay
Other than for the preservation
of status, mystioue and nreten-
tneW at a wpnklv defended nasslsion, none Of this Scientific lar-
named Kaslerine He acrerdingly*eon is needful. Everything that population under control (almost
mo™^ out “an fns"n if "®«'® ®®’’ »’® simply, destroying some species) with a
of $40 million for the first two
years.
We used to keep the predator
he Kasserine defenses, arriving
sbout 3 a.m., and finding no per-
and understandably. What
lacking to bring this about
bounty program at a considerably
^ more modest rate than Mr. Czar-
’oXl mine’s laid to Public indignation at the! niecki thinks needed for rats.
maT at™ri”BCt’’ L de,! hoaxes being foisted upon us all-i , « is true that in colonial tim,
nHrl HllaCKCrS. out, int? ut> 1rw*Al o/WJomnmonfo m Kniin
man attackers. “But,” the de>
’achment commander defended
against Ike’s army lingo eat-oqt,
“we’ve only been here two days.”
“Two days hell.” Ike charged,
“the Gernran would have had
mines out in two hours." Avoid
ing a tire-fight on rtturn, Ike
and three aides reached Algiers
headquarters at 6 a.m. He prompt
ly handed the communicator a
dispatch formalizing his verbal
order to “get those mines laid”.
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"No use to send this.” the com
municator replied. "The Germans
attacked at 5 o’clock. Our folks
are either in retreat or captured.”
—Christian Science Monitor
THE LONER
A report from Sheridan, Colo
rado, the other day said the new
woman mayor there wasted no
time in cleaning out city hall.
After Mrs. Jean Rosenbach had
been in office three minutes, she
fired the police chief, both muni
cipal judges, the city attorney,
the dty manager, the traffic
clerk, the street superintendent
and his assistant.
That, we submit, sets some
kind of record for a reform ad-
n^istration.
^Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser end 50 cents has little allure for
times
local governments paid a bounty
of 100 pounds of tobacco for an
old wolf (you proved your kill
by bringing in the head), but in'
more recent times a bounty of 50
cents per hawk or weasel kept
those chicken thieves fairly well
under control, while there were
regions in which gr^y fox, at si
bounty of 75 cents per head, and
red fox, at $1.50 per head, were
practically wiped out.
We had In mind that some
thing like a bounty of a quarter
or 50 cents per rat would encour-
age boys to clean out the rat pon-
ulatlon. Then we remembered
that these are time* of Inflation,
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